Memorial Day pics

Here's Patch, aka Apache, aka Charles (soft-c), aka Chuckles. It's her first time touching real grass with her toes and hands, and I don't think she was quite sure what to make of it.







And this is the Little One, who is absolutely in love with the ocean. "It appears to want more mud," she'd say, drawing big clumpfuls of sand in her hands and tossing them into the onrushing waves. The water was ice cold, but that didn't faze her.







Here's where we stayed for the weekend. My wife's father used to live in the bungalow on the left; now he's in his new bachelor pad a mile down the road. We stayed in the house on the right. Very quiet, but very small. Good thing the girls are little.





Lastly, here's the two engineers, me and my father-in-law, wondering how in the heck we're going to get this kite monstrosity up in the air without crashing down and reigning destruction upon the innocent men, women and children on the beach.